SRS Demolishes Massive Cooling Tower

On May 24, 2010, the Savannah River Sites (SRS) massive K Cooling Tower was safely demolished as part of the Site-wide Footprint Reduction Initiative funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

As the second-largest cooling tower to be demolished worldwide, the 450 foot-tall and 345 foot-wide tower posed a unique challenge to SRS project managers and commanded the attention of even the most seasoned industry veterans.

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[genre926]

these towers scare me for some reason..just the size of em..and what they do...idk...just sitting in one would drive me nuts

[Aaron Cruz]

When did Michael Bay get here? lolol

[s3inc]

Amazing I watched this structure being built making contractors millionaires on the tax dollar. What’s more amazing is that it was never put into operation for even for 1 second. Great job, should just have let everyone wipe their behinds with $100’s for a decade.

[Aaron Johnson]

Wow! I like that part when the cooling towers go down.

[LCRV1]

Built and never used!!!!! What a waste of money!!!

[Orangegang1haterz]

Who else came here because of slow mo guys

[ajaaniajaa]

What comes out of it is only water vapor.

[genre926]

ha i actually agree...i atually dont know alot about what actually goes on...its more about the size thing. i live not too far from the sequoya(i hope i spelled right) and everythime i ride by im in awe lol...why? idk..heck ima 20yr old college student that goes to a big ass university....idk what my deal is haha

[TaintedMustard]

I understand the size thing, but what is it about what they do that's scary? They transfer waste heat back to the atmosphere. They're one of the most innocuous parts of any power plant which uses steam to drive turbines. Chimneys belching out flue gases at coal-fired plants are a lot scarier.

I understand that they're commonly associated with nuclear power plants (even though they're used in coal plants too), but there's really nothing particularly scary about them.

[MrSwampdawg47]

your not alone they scare me alot just cause of their size and nuclear history

[HungryTacoBoy]

Bahaha!

[Gareth Evangelos Cledwyn Sloan]

The shape, size and structure scares me too, here in Great Britain we have some strange shaped cooling towers that look like they'll give way on you. :-P